Re: [libvirt PATCH v3 0/8] Support for VFIO variant drivers, Part 1

2023-08-23 Thread Joao Martins
On 21/08/2023 20:32, Laine Stump wrote: > A "VFIO variant" driver is a kernel driver for a device that supports > all the APIs of the basic vfio-pci driver (which enables assigning a > host PCI device to a QEMU guest) plus "some extra stuff" (e.g. to > enable things like saving/restoring device sta

Re: [libvirt PATCH v3 0/8] Support for VFIO variant drivers, Part 1

2023-08-23 Thread Michal Prívozník
On 8/21/23 21:32, Laine Stump wrote: > A "VFIO variant" driver is a kernel driver for a device that supports > all the APIs of the basic vfio-pci driver (which enables assigning a > host PCI device to a QEMU guest) plus "some extra stuff" (e.g. to > enable things like saving/restoring device state

[libvirt PATCH v3 0/8] Support for VFIO variant drivers, Part 1

2023-08-21 Thread Laine Stump
A "VFIO variant" driver is a kernel driver for a device that supports all the APIs of the basic vfio-pci driver (which enables assigning a host PCI device to a QEMU guest) plus "some extra stuff" (e.g. to enable things like saving/restoring device state in order to support live migration.) Way bac